Autumn gardens

In an edited extract from her latest book, Pastoral Gardens, a collaboration with the photographer Andrew Montgomery, Clare Foster explores Robin Hill in Connecticut, where designer Dan Pearson has incorporated the native flora to create a garden that blends into the surrounding landscape

Though the abundant borders of perennials, grasses and topiary in this enchanting Wiltshire garden might appear at first glance to be the result of a free-spirited approach, they reflect meticulous planning by its artist owner Bella Hoare

When landscape architect Stefano Marinaz saw this Essex garden for the first time, it was little more than a patch of lawn. Now, a sea of perennial planting and subtle structural elements have created a suitably naturalistic setting for the 18th-century barn conversion

Having grown up amid the gloriously untamed romance of Beckley Park in Oxfordshire, Amanda Feilding has a deep-rooted connection with its maze of topiary and rose gardens, patinaed pathways and still, dark waters, which themselves exude a soulful, atmospheric presence

Captivated by the setting of this farmhouse garden in Virginia, Luciano Giubbilei has overseen the creation of a prairie-style scheme in which native and non-native perennials and grasses blend for a sustainable and yet perfectly painterly effect

Beyond a high hedge in a Flemish village, passionate plantsman and garden designer Chris Ghyselen has created a haven with a lush lawn, marshy stream, pond and vegetable garden, and abundant beds of his own colourful cultivars

In an extract from 'Planting the Oudolf Gardens at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, we get a glimpse of the garden at one of the best moments of the year, autumn.

Tantalising vistas draw you in all directions in this Chiltern Hills garden, where Gavin McWilliam and Andrew Wilson have used walls, apertures and clever planting to transform a disjointed plot into a series of interconnected spaces

On the edge of Bradford-on-Avon in Wiltshire, Belcombe Court is an imposing Georgian house with a landscaped garden that is now a blend of restored 18th-century features and contemporary additions

Originally influenced by the eighteenth-century Picturesque movement, Millichope Park's immaculate lawns, walled gardens and follies are a study in historic landscaping

Having inherited St Giles House in tragic circumstances, the Earl of Shaftesbury set about its restoration and enlisted the help of Jane Hurst to revive its neglected gardens in a sustainable way

Continuing her series on designers' gardens, this month Clare Foster visits the Dutch garden of Piet Oudolf, the hub of his experimentation with plants for more than 30 years

In an extract from 'Stourhead: Henry Hoare's Paradise Revisited', we explore the origins of this most English of gardens and marvel at its autumnal landscape